Colin Atkinson

An enhanced graph-based infrastructure for software search engines

2015 · Mining Software Repositories

The first generation of software search engines such as Merobase, Sourcerer etc. Showed that it is possible to support reasonably sophisticated searches over large bodies of software components using indices based on full-text search engines …

Measuring the Superfluous Functionality in Software Components

2015

One of the drawbacks of a pragmatic, white box approach to the reuse of software is that reusable components often have more built-in functionality than is needed for a particular (re)usage scenario. This functionality either …